Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> > Seems we either have to contact the author or rewrite the file. > >> > >> Why? Even if the text is removed, he will still own the copyright, as > >> is the case for any patch submitted because we don't have any form of > >> copyright assignment. > > > > True, but their names on these files is bound to confuse legal folks > > looking at the code. ?I got a private email about these copyrights last > > week from a _very_ large company, which is how they came to my > > attention. > > I'm not saying we shouldn't remove the text, but there's no need to > rewrite the code.
Well, for the ones where the file is 6 lines, it might be worth re-writing if we can't contact the authors. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
